01-27-2015, 12:00 AM
billy wrote:Julio Juliopolis, thanks. The point of departing from the meta-cognition caught my attention. I probably practice logic more-so, but I have experienced such recognition. I am waking up with dreams into waking, thinking to remember, but wake up grasping at straws. I only did lucid dreaming a few times, which i did suceed by the 'hand' technique. I wonder 1st, if you have a tip so I keep retention whether lucid or not. 2nd, a tip to gain entrance into lucid dreaming.
I ask here that if you answer, it not be textbook stuff, but rather what your heart would say, and drawing from what is uniquely your own. Hey Billy,
I'll give you an answer that comes from the heart and a short one that comes from mind to those questions as well, (But I will try to keep from going "textbook" on you).
To the question about retention, the Mind tip - Every morning make the attempt to remember before getting out of bed. Keep a dream diary, (perhaps in Ravenfield?), to help get your mind focused on doing this.
To the question about retention, the Heart tip - You can wake up and be Billy the drowsy, needy to get his coffee, who lacks the energy for sleepy endeavys.... or you can be dream-lord Billy thrice-most-greatest who remembers all and overlooks nothing! Decide which role you want to play and start playing it. It won't take long to find you really are it, (if your dream rentention doesn't improve drastically from this in 2 weeks, I'll wear my hat!)
To the question about gaining entrance to lucid dreaming, the Mind tip - This all boils down to where we hold energy with our attention. The point of my original post here is that the area seems to have been discovered by scientists now, (as it corresponds to the brain anyway), and is identical to the area where one thinks of issues related to meta-cognition. This gives us a clue as to how to lucid dream - find that area and hold it with our attention. I would describe the area as being about 6 inches forwards and 10 inches upwards from the spot of the 3rd eye.
To answer the question about gaining entrance to lucid dreaming, the Heart tip - Dance! Dance like nobody's judging! Live, for someday ye shall die! Surely you can recall times in waking life when you "felt so alive"... do likewise in dreaming! You shall become lucid and more! The area mentioned in the mind tip above will be energized, yet so will everything else. Thank you for asking for this answer, for it's helped me to realize that this technique is also the key for becoming fully awake in dreaming.
Footnote - I've been asked outside of this post for more information on what meta-cognition really means. I offer this analogy which may help. Consider "thinking" to be like playing a game of poker with some buddies. For this analogy, logic would be akin to the official rules of poker. Imagine that in this game, those whom you're playing with are absolutely mesmerised by the pretty pictures on their own cards, (their own thoughts). So much so that while they give lip service to following the rules of the game ("Of course I'm being logical"), they were actually so mesmerized by the cards they never even bothered to learn the rules, (they don't know the rules of logic), and really don't care if they break them provided they protect their cards, (beliefs). Meta-cognition here, then, would be like the meta-game of poker. Looking past the official rules to examine other things. Such as what does John's raise tell you about his hand? Why did Betty hesitate before calling? What's really inspiring others to play as they do? Or in terms of meta-cognition, why do people really hold and protect the beliefs they have, what is their motivation for arguing the way they do, etc.
I ask here that if you answer, it not be textbook stuff, but rather what your heart would say, and drawing from what is uniquely your own. Hey Billy,
I'll give you an answer that comes from the heart and a short one that comes from mind to those questions as well, (But I will try to keep from going "textbook" on you).
To the question about retention, the Mind tip - Every morning make the attempt to remember before getting out of bed. Keep a dream diary, (perhaps in Ravenfield?), to help get your mind focused on doing this.
To the question about retention, the Heart tip - You can wake up and be Billy the drowsy, needy to get his coffee, who lacks the energy for sleepy endeavys.... or you can be dream-lord Billy thrice-most-greatest who remembers all and overlooks nothing! Decide which role you want to play and start playing it. It won't take long to find you really are it, (if your dream rentention doesn't improve drastically from this in 2 weeks, I'll wear my hat!)
To the question about gaining entrance to lucid dreaming, the Mind tip - This all boils down to where we hold energy with our attention. The point of my original post here is that the area seems to have been discovered by scientists now, (as it corresponds to the brain anyway), and is identical to the area where one thinks of issues related to meta-cognition. This gives us a clue as to how to lucid dream - find that area and hold it with our attention. I would describe the area as being about 6 inches forwards and 10 inches upwards from the spot of the 3rd eye.
To answer the question about gaining entrance to lucid dreaming, the Heart tip - Dance! Dance like nobody's judging! Live, for someday ye shall die! Surely you can recall times in waking life when you "felt so alive"... do likewise in dreaming! You shall become lucid and more! The area mentioned in the mind tip above will be energized, yet so will everything else. Thank you for asking for this answer, for it's helped me to realize that this technique is also the key for becoming fully awake in dreaming.
Footnote - I've been asked outside of this post for more information on what meta-cognition really means. I offer this analogy which may help. Consider "thinking" to be like playing a game of poker with some buddies. For this analogy, logic would be akin to the official rules of poker. Imagine that in this game, those whom you're playing with are absolutely mesmerised by the pretty pictures on their own cards, (their own thoughts). So much so that while they give lip service to following the rules of the game ("Of course I'm being logical"), they were actually so mesmerized by the cards they never even bothered to learn the rules, (they don't know the rules of logic), and really don't care if they break them provided they protect their cards, (beliefs). Meta-cognition here, then, would be like the meta-game of poker. Looking past the official rules to examine other things. Such as what does John's raise tell you about his hand? Why did Betty hesitate before calling? What's really inspiring others to play as they do? Or in terms of meta-cognition, why do people really hold and protect the beliefs they have, what is their motivation for arguing the way they do, etc.